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Class of words expressing spatiotemporal relations or semantic roles
In linguistics, adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles. The most common adpositions are prepositions and postpositions. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: AdpositionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Adposition ji…ra in Northern Kurdish: Evidence for a Middle ApplicativeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Adpositions and Other Parts of SpeechThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Are corpus-based predictions mirrored in the preferential choices and ratings of native speakers? Predicting the alternation between the Estonian adessive case and the adposition <i>peal</i> ‘on’Cited 8 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Are corpus-based predictions mirrored in the preferential choices and ratings of native speakers? Predicting the alternation between the Estonian adessive case and the adposition <i>peal</i> ‘on’
Temporal frames of reference and the locative case marking of the Finnish adposition ete- ‘in front of / ahead’
From ‘favor’ to ‘cause’: the English causal adposition thanks to and its Korean counterpart tekpwuney
Complement raising, extraction and adposition stranding in Dutch
Draw mir a Sheep: A Supersense-based Analysis of German Case and Adposition Semantics
The grammaticalization path DEICTIC SPATIAL ADVERB > ADPOSITION
New methods for analyzing case and adposition meaning
The Types of Adposition and Their Conjunctive Use in Chinese Minority Languages
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Adposition ji…ra in Northern Kurdish: Evidence for a Middle Applicative
On Adposition Phrases in Dagara*
A Study on the Correlation between the Word Order of the Adposition and the Types of Motion Verbs in the Ancient Chinese Period
On the shaping of the Hindi caritive construction with the adposition binā ‘without’
The Grammar of Adposition in English and Ịzọn
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Adpositions and Other Parts of SpeechAlan Libert · 2013
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